First Long-Term LedgerX Bitcoin Option Pegs Price at $10,000

“Called a Long-Term Equity Anticipation Security (LEAPS), the trade was matched by the platform this morning and is set to expire on December 28, 2018. Such long term futures options have long been seen in the industry as a much needed sign of maturity, and could in part help pave the way for even more institutional money to enter the space.”

Read more: https://www.coindesk.com/first-long-term-ledgerx-bitcoin-option-pegs-price-10000-one-year/

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China’s Record Yield Curve Inversion “Spells Disaster”

“The Chinese yield curve has now been inverted for 10 straight days – the longest period of inversion ever.  Qin Han, chief fixed-income analyst at Guotai Junan Securities Co., doesn’t mince his words when it comes to the rout in Chinese bonds. ‘Considering the pace of the slump, which is very fast, it’s fair to say we are likely in a bond disaster…'”

Read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-30/chinas-record-yield-curve-inversion-spells-disaster

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The Black Swan In Plain Sight—Debt Out The Wazoo

“Washington has suspended it way into a $5.7 trillion increase in the public debt in just six years since October 2011. That is, during a period which supposedly constitutes the third longest business expansion in US history.  At the end of the day, you can’t borrow your way to prosperity. That’s the oldest rule in the book of sound money and sustainable finance.  And it’s about ready to be learned all over again.”

Read more: http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-black-swan-in-plain-sight-debt-out-the-wazoo/

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The Ponzi scheme that’s more than 100x the size of Bernie Madoff

“Credit-rating agency Moody’s estimates state, federal and local government pensions are $7 trillion short in funding.  And corporate pension funds are underfunded by $375 billion.  One of the big drivers behind this is that investment returns are way too low.  Today with government bonds yielding 3% or less (and in some cases bond yields are NEGATIVE), they aren’t achieving their targets.  One or two years with sub-optimal investment returns is not catastrophic. But it’s been like this now for a decade.  And that’s just problem #1.  Problem #2 is that the ratio between workers and retirees is moving in the wrong direction.”

Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-ponzi-scheme-thats-more-than-100x-the-size-of-bernie-madoff-22601/

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Is Government Really The Price Of Civilization?

“The infrastructure-building, law-codifying, biopolitical states of antiquity are not the starting points of universal history for Scott, as they were for both Marx and liberal historians. They are instead a kind of usurpation of a longer and quite possibly richer human practice of mobility and freedom.”

Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/145444/paleo-politics-what-made-prehistoric-hunter-gatherers-give-freedom-civilization

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US-led war against ISIS is killing 31 times more civilians than claimed

“Thanks to Khan and Gopal, we now have statistics showing just how poor a job the military has done — and just how many civilians are paying the price.”

Read more: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/11/16/16666628/iraq-nyt-casualties-civilian

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Lawsuit Seeks To Eliminate Warrantless Border Electronics Searches

“The EFF and ACLU are among the civil liberties groups that believe CBP and ICE are overstepping their powers through their electronic device searches. The groups recently filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of several U.S. citizens whose devices were searched and/or detained. The EFF/ACLU lawsuit regularly references the disconnect between these border searches and any evidence of a violation of immigration or customs laws.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/you-have-a-right-to-your-data-at-the-border/

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When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean Being Banned From Working

“Blocking licenses is a more aggressive weapon, and states are using it on behalf of themselves and the federal government.  Proponents of the little-known state licensing laws say they are in taxpayers’ interest. But critics from both parties say the laws shove some borrowers off a financial cliff.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/18/business/student-loans-licenses.html

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U.S. Sued For Flooding Some Houston Neighborhoods to Save Others

“The takings clause of the U.S. Constitution’s Fifth Amendment forbids the federal government from seizing citizens’ property without paying for it.  Until 2012 the government successfully argued that it wasn’t legally responsible for decisions made in response to temporary flooding. That year the Supreme Court laid out a new multifactor test that could establish government liability in such cases.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-16/the-u-s-flooded-one-of-houston-s-richest-neighborhoods-to-save-everyone-else

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The next big industry to face digital disruption will be our nations

“Our nations are now undergoing a digital revolution, which will radically reshape them once again — this time into borderless online communities with services that can be accessed anywhere there is an internet connection.”

Read more: https://medium.com/e-residency-blog/what-is-a-nation-children-born-today-will-grow-up-with-a-radically-different-answer-b31f14403c3c

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